Matthew Hayden
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We have picked finishers.
You know, when I'm looking at these, what do you call this?
Well, no, I'm looking at this, not a run sheet, it's a team sheet.
I'm looking at the team sheet and I'm thinking, OK, we've got Cooper Connolly at eight and a front line striker.
option with the ball in conditions which Sri Lanka would just relish.
Someone like Cooper Conley and his inexperience to lengthen our batting.
Cameron Green didn't damage the scoreboard again with the ball yet picked as an all-rounder.
Tim David, I think, is the best finisher in good batting conditions.
I don't think there's any better than him.
Look at the way that he finished off RCB in the IPL last year.
He was magnificent.
But these surfaces, they're way trickier than that.
You have to start.
And you have to be able to manipulate...
the strike in conditions which are going to be holding, if not just turning a fraction.
Marcus Stoinis with the ball is not going to have that kind of threat that we know and appreciate Australian bowling lineups to have.
Always we're full of bowling as a general rule.
You know, so it's really who we haven't got here.
You know, Smith coming in late to the equation,
I would have argued in these conditions.